1] Look at how you start qmail, there's a problem.
2] See the other response.
Robbie Walker
At 01:38 AM 11/2/99 , you wrote:
>
>I'm having a problem with my newly installed qmail, and I hope someone
>can help me. I'm a bit of a newbie, so I'm not sure what info you'll
>need - I'll just include it all, and hope you find what you need below :)
>
>First some background. My username is david, and my host is
>a3a88198.bconnected.net.
>My e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ~/.qmail contains the string
>./Maildir/,
>and qmail is run with the following rc file:
>
> exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
> qmail-start ./Mailbox/ splogger qmail
>
>I can send mail local-to-local and local-to-remote, but cannot receive mail
>sent locally or remotely. Specifically, the doc/TEST.deliver tests work fine,
>but doc/TEST.receive test #1 fails as shown below.
>
> [david@a3a88198 david]$ telnet 127.0.0.1 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 a3a88198.bconnected.net ESMTP
> helo dude
> 250 a3a88198.bconnected.net
> mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 250 ok
> rcpt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 250 ok
> data
> 354 go ahead
> Subject: blah
>
> blah
> .
> 250 ok 941519761 qp 4767
>
>produces the following:
>
> Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.504736 new msg 223317
> Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.504898 info msg 223317: bytes 198
>from <> qp 4767 uid 503
> Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.683230 starting delivery 3: msg
>223317 to local @a3a88198.bconnected.net
> Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.683379 status: local 1/10 remote
>0/20
> Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.684374 delivery 3: success:
> Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.684471 status: local 0/10 remote
>0/20
> Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.684541 end msg 223317
>
>Note line 3 - to local @a3a88198.bconnected.net. That's weird - there's no
user
>in front of the @. So I tried adding an alias file, called .qmail-silenus,
>containing the string "david" - I hoped that qmail would route incoming
mail to
>
>silenus to user david. Unfortunately, this didn't work.
>
>Next I tried adding a users/assign file, written thusly:
>
> =futility:david:500:500:/home/david:::
> .
>
>This also didn't work. Next, I tried the TEST.receive test #1, but replaced
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following strings:
>
> silenus@localhost
> david@localhost
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Each of these attempts produced the exact same log report.
>
>I can't think of anything else I can do. As far as I know, the alias dotfile
>should have worked - I don't know why it failed, and I don't know what to do
>next.
>
>Apologies for the long post. I hope someone can help me.
>
>
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>"But why Hell for me?" he asked. "And why for all? Was it not to keep it
>only for a few that Christ redeemed us?"
>
>Father Casper laughed like the God of the damned. "Why, when did He redeem
>you? On what planet, in what universe do you think you are living now?"
>
> - Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before
>
